IRELAND.
The Dublin Evening Mail of Monday says that Lord Derby has given authority for the translation and publication of the whole of the famous Bt ehon Laws; and that the task has been intrusted to Dr. Todd and Dr. Graves. Lord. Palmerston is accused by the Freeman's Journal of having used all his influence at the late election in the county of Sligo to favour the Derbyite candidates : but it appears that the " influence " amounted to the expression of a hope that his tenants would vote for Gore and Booth; and ho declared at the same time that they might vote directly opposite if they thought proper.
Lord Lorton has addressed a lachrymose letter to his tenantry on the Boyle, Rockingham, Elphin, and Sligo estates, upbraiding them with in_ gratitude for voting against his wishes, especially as he had done so much in remitting rents, and had spent "400,0001. in lasting improvements" !
The Tenant League Conference is to be held at Dublin, in the Music Hall, on the 8th of September. Mr. Sharman Crawford declines to pre- side over it, on the ground that " the result of the county of Down elec- tion having withdrawn me from the position of taking any further Par. liamentary charge of the bill, I do not hold that I would be justified in assuming the post." On this subject the Dublin correspondent of the Times of Thursday intimates, "that, after long and laborious preparation, the Attorney-General for Ireland has perfected his bill for the adjustment of the relations between landlord and tenant, and that ho will lay it be. fore Parliament at the earliest possible opportunity. If rumour is to be credited, its provisions are of so liberal a nature as regards the interests of the tenant class, that the wind will be completely taken out of the sails of the gentlemen who have gained anchorage in St. Stephen's on the score of the services they were to render towards carrying out in its integrity the whole bill' of the ex-Member for Rochdale."
The Dublin Evening Post of Tuesday furnished the following return of the sales in the Encumbered Estates Court, from the opening of the Com- mission until the 9th instant ; when further sales in Dublin were sus- pended until after the Summer vacation.
" The number of estates sold was 777 in 4083 lots.
Court sales, £4,715,257 10 0 Provincial sales, 1,636,198 0 0 Private sales, Total, . 1,002,280 12 81 £7,353,736 2 81"
According to the Cork Constitution, the number of visits to the Exhibi- tion, from its commencement to six o'clock on Friday week, has been re- turned as 70,600. Of this number, the season-ticket admissions were 36,000 ; the two-shilling tickets, 5600 ; the shilling tickets, 12,000 ; and the sixpence tickets, 17,000. Should the public patronage continue up to the close of the Exhibition as it has done since its commencement, the total number of admissions will exceed 100,000.
The progress of the potato-blight has been a subject of great anxiety during the past week. Accounts, probably derived from partial inspec- tion of the crops, have materially fluctuated from day to day. There has undoubtedly been a good deal of disease in parts of the South and West ; but to what extent the general crop has been affected, is at present a mat- ter of guess. A circular, dated August 4, has issued from the Poor-law Commission Office, addressed to the Unions, requesting that an "exact report of the present state of the potato crop" may be forwarded with as little delay as possible.
The inquiry at Six-mile Bridge has extended over another week ; and the examination of witnesses has only brought the evidence down to what actually took place when the military entered tho village. No two witnessss agree in anything except the facts that there was stone-throw- ing on one side followed by firing on the other. It has not even been ascertained, within a few thousands, how many people were there. The disposition of the mob is variously described, as comparatively harmless, and as determined for a row. That the mob " groaned" the voters, that they were incited by the priest to do so, that stones were thrown and the soldiers hustled, arc facts that seem to be established. But whether the mob or the soldiers brought about the fatal recourse to the musket and bayonet, is not so clear. There is some evidence which would lead to an inference that one or more of the soldiers fired twice into the flying crowd ; but it is not known whether Mr. Delmege did or did not give orders to fire. On the whole, the evidence is very contradictory, and wanting in clear and graphic sketches of what passed.
Two of the Roman Catholic priests, who have been for some time past living at the expense of the Priests Protection Society at Dublin, as con- verts to Protestantism, have turned Roman Catholics again. They are the Reverend Mr. Wall and the Reverend Andrew Hopkins.
A disgraceful personal encounter has taken place in Outerard Workhouse between the Protestant and the Roman Catholic chaplains, in consequence of a dispute as to which should minister to the spiritual wants of a dying woman. The woman appears to have been a dubious character with respect to her religious creed. The chaplains fiercely discussed the dogmas of their respective churches, and then the Protestant seems to have assailed his op- ponent with carnal weapons. The matter is under investigation.
Brophy, sentenced to death for participation in a murder at Ballymuck, has been hanged at Kilkenny. In the press-room" he declared that he had nothing to do with the murder.
Francis Berry, a young man, convicted of being accessory in an attempt to murder Mr. Chambre, has been hanged at Armagh.
Dr. Power, Archdeacon of Lismore, and three boys—two of them his sons, and the other his nephew—with two boatmen, went in a sailing-boat from Ardmore to Youghal : they set out on their return in the evening, but near home, from some mismanagement of the sail, the boat was upset. One boatman got to land, and announced the disaster. Boats were put out ; and Dr. Power was discovered clinging to a rock, quite exhausted, and almost in- sensible. Nothing was seen of the boys or of the second boatman—all had perished.
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